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Cool dorms
A local real estate blog just posted a proposed dorm building, which is predictably ugly and boring. One commenter on the blog said this:
"Yeah, but it's just a dorm, people - show me an architecturally significant dorm built in the last ten years and you can retain your rights to complain about this one!"
Obviously so many things are wrong with this statement, I could bang my head against a wall:
1. What about inspiring students to think in stead of toil mindlessly in a brick box?
2. You must be in real estate if you post on this blog, are you really THAT uninformed about 2a. the archtiecture world and 2b. the effect of buildings on people's behaviour?
3. Um, don't we have rights to free speech anyway, or do we need to earn them by proving our knowledge (which actually might be fine by me if it means posters to real estate blogs would be required to take an architecture appreciation class - just kidding)?
So I want to inundate the blog with cool dorms (post-1998). Help me out - I've already posted Holl's Simmons Hall, One Western Avenue by Machado and Silvetti, and Helmut Jahn's State Street Village.
Nice, make... I also need link info: architect? I can look up date etc. Actually, I'm sure I can find that one.
Oh, and duh - Morphosis at UCincy. I'll go post that one...
Look again at the name ;-)
I haven't seen the one they did in Cincinnati.
Please post!
- honestly one of my favorite buildings ever, I've been to it four times and love it more each visit.
lewis tsurumaki lewis at the college of wooster in ohio
Ah! Great one, thanks, superinteresting!
you're welcome. there are also a couple of not bad ones by kyu sung woo at bennington and brandeis. but i can't really get too excited about them.
but, if not sticking to the ten year window, the crazy cool ones by saarinen at vassar and yale, and aalto at mit.
simmons hall at MIT by holl
I thought there was a new bright green one at Arizona State University by Will Bruder, but I can't find it, only the Machado Silvetti (also bright green) one.
mayne's u of t grad housing!
some others:
murphy jahn, state street village
Fink + Jocher, student dorms, TU muenchen
Lundgaard & Tranberg, tietgenkollegiet
Bevk Perovic, student housing poljane
stevie holl, simmons hall
alvar aalto, baker house
LTL, bornhuetter hall
spengler wiescholek, student dorms, TU muenchen
Bez + Kock , student housing Saalepark
twbta, Hereford Residential College (UVA)
Thanks, holz, as always!
Here is something for you, someone on the blog I'm referencing posted this: apparently its, umm, a prison?!
All glass prison, Austria
get a life holz!
NO! No, holz, no, DON'T get a life! We need you! Your life is here! ;-)
Gateway Dorm at MICA in Baltimore by RTKL:
link
have done a bunch of dorm work... although a lot of it is renovation stuff...
ehdd had some dorms at berkeley that won a national aia design award this year...
whoa, great prison!
the Lundgaard & Tranberg project that holz posted is REALLY nice... it is outside of copenhagen at orestad... i was able to see them in person last year and i couldn't believe that they were student housing...
oops, and i'm off to get a life, as well...
some examples to add:
Sarphatistraat Student Housing (amsterdam) by VMX
http://www.mimoa.eu/projects/Netherlands/Amsterdam/Housing%20Sarphatistraat
Bikuben Student housing (copenhagen)
http://www.mimoa.eu/projects/Denmark/Copenhagen/The%20Bikuben%20Student%20Residence
Smarties by Marlies Röhmer in Utrecht,
Baumschlager Eberle in Vienna,
the Bevk perovic one in Ljubljana
and so on... Sorry, no time to add pictures to this post...
i wouldn't classify the vmx one as dorms, very big floorplans. and most are free market flats.
but, next door is the [http://www.mimoa.eu/projects/Netherlands/Amsterdam/UVA%20Dek
]cka student flats[/url]
[url=http://www.mimoa.eu/projects/Netherlands/Amsterdam/UVA%20Dek
]cka student flats[/url]
err silly me, well you get the message
http://www.mimoa.eu/projects/Netherlands/Amsterdam/UVA%20Dek
way to pimp yer employer (again!)
any action from the house you recently finished?
well...this one deserves a mention in this thread imo. the house is 95% done, clients moved in and loving it. atm builder is finishing some elements of the facade. some pics are on my flickr acct.
louis kahn, erdman hall at bryn mawr
i feel like kahn may have some other dorms, but i'm blanking.
oh, lb, does cranbrook count?
The Kahn dorm is not one of his better buildings. Although this image is nice.
Kyu Sung Woo has two new dorms in the Boston area--one that I think is just finished at Harvard and a huge one at Northeastern. Quite different but both awfully good looking.
cook house by kta
we have another set of dorms nearing the end of SD located at UCSD. they should be nice if a couple of issues get worked out.
another one from nl, hvdn architecten - prefab student housing. got alot of publicity over here, not sure if it got much overseas.
How about Piano's dorm at the Atlanta College of Art. Let me find pics
These aren't the best images but the dormitory is part of the High museum complex. The dorm is fairly simple, features bright green louvres on a white facade.
has anyone mentioned baker house at mit by alvar aalto yet?
and then there's the willow street housing at tulane by scogin elam.
and this one:
space boxes at tu delft.
whitman college at princeton by polphyrios
(panned as being proportionally wrong for the gothic)
scully hall at princeton by machado silvetti
(panned for being ugly and sterile)
To resurrect... Some of these have probably already been on, but it's a nice collection with lots of images and a few drawings.
link
Morphsis rec center at University of Cincinnati...has a dorm component to it
In the link above, with a plan and 3d site render.
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